Klaus wrote:Nela wrote:A real indictment of the contract and wage policies of the past few years. Gazidis spend his first couple of years signing most of our player up to long term deals by overpaying for a lot of mediocre players. And now we can't sell any of them. Not even Bendtner could be sold.
It's just the reality of football. The likes of City, United and Chelsea have pushed the wages through the roof in the last couple of years. You either follow suit or you'll lose all of the even remotely decent squad depth you've got. Roque Santa Cruz hasn't played a full game of football for City in over two years but he's still there because no one can afford to take him permanently. It was the same story with Adebayor. City still pay the better part of his salary just to get him off their books. A decade ago Winston Bogarde was ridiculed for pocketing wages at Chelsea. Today it's common practise.
Di maria (real madrid) started with 1.8 million euros per year.
So, 37.5k EUR per week.
I don't know why we pay so much money to a bunch of useless players